Czech snowboarder Sarka Pancochova was forced to make a pit stop before a snowboarding crash sent her to the hospital: drug-testing.

Pancochova fell backward while landing a jump during the women’s slopestyle finals Sunday and slammed her head on the course hard enough to crack her helmet.

But before the woozy snowboarder could head to the hospital as a precautionary measure, she was selected for a drug test—as any Olympian here may be. Poncochova had to take the test within an hour of competing, according to International Olympic Committee rules.

Pancochova had trouble recalling the crash and was being treated for the anticipated development of a whiplash injury, but her major medical tests were clear, Czech doctor Jaroslav Vetvicka said.

“However, we were a bit annoyed that Sarka had to go to doping control in such a difficult situation,” Vetvicka said.

IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said that if an athlete is injured then pulled for drug-testing, “a chaperone will follow until all urgent medical assessment and treatment is completed. The doping control process will never compromise any medical treatment. In that particular case, we have been informed that everything went very smoothly.”

Comments (5 of 5)

Obviously, Barrack Obama is responsible for this travesty. This is what socialized medicine leads to!

10:54 am February 11, 2014

Amy J. wrote:

She took a fall that would have killed any of the IOC members or any normal person, and they still held her well being check up at the hospital up for a drug test? They can do those tests AT THE HOSPITAL. For the IOC ot make any kind of a statment to say they are compassionate and caring of the athlete is an atrocity and a lie.

She needed IMMEDIATE evaluation.

7:21 am February 11, 2014

JBL wrote:

She was already ousted from competition having won nothing...what more did they have to gain or prove?

Idiots.

1:26 am February 11, 2014

may lee wrote:

that's so stupid. i don't understand why they had to pick someone who already went through an obviously traumatic experience.

9:53 am February 10, 2014

Alonzo Quijana wrote:

Well, that's just ridiculous. Another rule-bound bureaucracy in action.

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